This is the fucking issue.
It simply overwrites your nuance.
/cries in aphantasiac
No, really though. Excellent comic.
I can still have the idea of a thing or a place or a character and ‘know’ what it ‘should’ look like without being able to actually visualize it. That itself is a motivation to draw it or paint it or model and render it; once I’m done I finally can see what the thing I was thinking of would look like.
Surely it would be so much easier if I could just… daydream up the future finished piece, and hold it there in my mind as I copy everything I ‘see’ down onto the paper. That’s like an actual magical superpower for anyone who wants to make art, and it’s something almost everyone already has- and just takes for granted. All the practice and technique of getting the lines and colors down right to match your imagination is the easy part- because it’s possible to learn. And I did learn it, and it’s still hard to draw. Always takes lots of construction lines and scribbling and revising and iterating. But if I could visualize at all, that would make it so easy it would almost feel like cheating.
I already knew prompter bros sucked, but I think this just unlocked a new level of contempt. Sitting here with my empty white head-bubble-cloud but making do anyway, while guy #2 has a perfectly functional one that he’s not even using.
I agree with the sentiment, but I am a shit artist so my drawings just sort of resemble what I was thinking.
This is the primary reason I quickly stopped using AI art. I was always settling and it was never my idea.
The only way I’ve found it to be useful is promotional images for social media at work. Stuff that no one is paying attention to anyway. And even then, I sometimes have to fight it a couple times to get what I need.
I’ve never seen AI art that was inspired.
The only times I use AI art (non commercially and self hosted), it’s always when I don’t have the time to do proper art of the thing I want, and I still want to show a sketch of the idea.
Never settle with AI stuff. Learn art and let your imagination free
(P.S. I’m a 3d artist, I suck at drawing so I can’t just sketch it myself)
